If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!
-"If," by Rudyard Kipling
"You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape." ― G.I. Gurdjieff
"They conquer who believe they can."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
This book is 100% a work of fiction... and 100% a work of nonfiction...and both, and neither, and a superposition of every state in between.
To say that I've lived a life full of magick and adventure would be an understatement, but under no condition should anyone just hear that and accept it at face value. The majority of those times have past, and with the exception of the corroboration of some others who might have been there and seen some of it there is no way for anyone to prove that some of the crazy stuff that happened to me really did.
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How To Become A Wizard (With Or Without Magick)
Non-FictionHow to Become a Wizard (With or Without Magick) invites you on an extraordinary journey into the world of wizardry, where reality bends and belief becomes the most powerful force of all. Join The Wandering Wizard Simon Kalimanus as he unravels the s...